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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
We’ve featured directors Hitchcock, Spielberg, Henson, Dante and Carpenter and now we get to one of the old school greats: Mr. Howard Hawks.
And boy what a pic. Hawks, rocking a cowboy and looking up at the unbelievably hot young Angie Dickinson. Can I hear an amen?
Rio Bravo was a flick I came to rather late (covering it early in my run of A Movie A Day), but one that I was on-board with after the opening scene that tells us everything we need to know about Dean Martin’s Dude and John Wayne’s Sheriff John T. Chance without one word of dialogue spoken.
The flick is a master class in western filmmaking. Hawks plays with western iconography and archetypes and makes it so damn timelessly entertaining. Walter Brennan’s worth a watch by himself even if you ignore Dean Martin’s surprisingly layered turn as the town drunk, Wayne at his most cocksure and Dickinson as her most hottie-hotness.
Anyway, here’s the pic! Enjoy!

If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes pic features a giant cock-punch! See ya’ then!
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But I must be mistaken. Surely they would know the quote for todays pic is from 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'. Which was not directed by Howard Hawks and did not star Angie Dickinson. Shall we rename this feature 'random quote with a pic from a different movie'?

Hawks was a master of multi-layer conversations in scenes. I've always been impressed with how, in his version of The Thing: From Another Planet, characters would be carrying on actual conversations in the background then switch and interject with the characters in the foreground. Not a lot of directors then, or now it seems, could pull that off. It was, I believe, kind of his trademark.

Heck Carpenter has re-made this movie like 5 times already! (Ghosts of Mars,Assault on precinct 13, parts of prince of darkness mimic it... ) Can't beat Walter Brennan either.
BTW, top 5 westerns of all time ? (In no particular order) The Searchers, Rio Bravo, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Outlaw Josey Wales,Once Upon a Time in the West

... or is a shameless troll. <p> Except for "Unforgiven", the westerns you named aren't even in the top 20. Go watch: "High Noon", "The Searchers", "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", "Stage Coach" (either version), "Red River", "The Three Godfathers" "Once Upon a Time in the West", and "High Plains Drifter", FOR STARTERS; then come back and spew that same lame list you put up, so we can all have a good laugh at your complete lack of taste. <p> Come on y'all what else is at the top westerns wise?

... you have no idea what the hell your talking about. Start with "High Noon" (the version with Gary Cooper not Tom Skerrit) and work your way down. It's in blacj and white so it probably won't hold your adolecent attention any more than OUTIW.. "Young Guns" is a terrible film.

...and can kinda see the Diaz thing, but you lost me at Akerman. I'd still bang all of em. yes, even Dickinson's old ass. She was the first naked woman I saw on film so it's the principle of the thing..

About westerns. I remember watching Silverado on Beta which I have vague memories of liking lots. Dickinson is hot in this pic though. I disagree with the assessment that she was "ugly" in later years. Women aren't supposed to look like teenagers when they are forty. Hence the abomination of some of these cosmetic surgery crimes against nature.

Yer mama must've sniffed glue when she was preggers with you. Once upon a time in the west has one of the greatest openings in western history. No dialogue, just pure badassery. Matched only by perhaps unforgiven. I still remember seeing that hooker getting cut up the first time and thinking "is this the greatest movie ever?". Young guns is a fucking joke.

Dressed to Kill and I think she was in that one Charles Bronson/Lee Marvin movie "Death Hunt." I thought she was a sexy older gal in Dressed to Kill, even if she was probably heavily doubled during the opening "masturbation in the misty shower" dream sequence. I agree about Ellen Barkin sharing a similar "beauty ideal" as well.

You gotta compare young Diaz to Akkerman. Mainly it's the blonde hair, huge mouth, and sparkling blue eyes. Plus Akkerman was in a Ben Stiller Movie where she essentially played the same character that Diaz played in a Ben Stiller movie.

The way morricone uses ordinary sounds to build tension is superb. The visual gags that leone uses to illustrate the tedium of waiting for a train are captivating. All capped off with a 3-on-1 shootout from which only harmonica walks away... Simply magnificent. The pacing is the point. Young guns is a glorified music video. Entertaining when I was 6, but not the cult classic you seem to think it is.

... so is "True Grit" and half a dozen other Wayne pictures beyond the ones I've already named. Any love out thee for Walter Hill's "The Long Riders"? <p> Whoever it was called "Young Guns" an over-blown music video, or words to that effect, was right on the money. The only thing in it worth a shit was Brian Keith, He was GREAT. the movie SUCKED. <p> The opening of "Once Upon a Time in the West" boring?! No basis for further conversation with Troll Mama.

I called it a glorified music video, but I think overblown is actually a more suitable adjective. "The long riders" is extremely underrated. The northfield ambush is sublime. The most stylized western violence you'll see outside of a peckinpah film. And 3 carridines for the price of one? Hell yes.

...that is now pretty much extinct. The only western on the horizon is Cowboys vs. Aliens, which is more sci-fi than western. Young Guns took that dead genre, made it new, made it fresh, and did it well. It had Jack Palance as the villain, too. It's either cinematic snobbery or a generational thing (ie. they're old) which would make someone who loves westerns hate the movie Young Guns.

I won't argue with those choices, there are legitimate cases to be made for both. Let's just all agree that young guns doesn't belong in this conversation. He put shanghai noon in his top 5 too, and I haven't even touched that.

Tombstone? Unforgiven? Open Range? Assasination of Jesse James? 3:10 to Yuma? All came after Young guns and er..werent exactly "influenced" by Young Guns..the first one was great, actually pretty historically accurate..the 2nd one was basically the gay expendables in the old west.

Unforgiven put a modern spin on westerns, not young guns, its the great western of that era. I was born in 82, so I was the target audience for young guns. As far as cinematic snobbery goes, I liked back to the future 3 as a western, and that kinda sucked too. It just seems ridiculous to put young guns in a top 5, and then dismiss once upon a time as boring. The photo that inspired this talkback was of howard fucking hawks. Young guns shouldn't have even come up.

War films, noir, comedy, westerns, drama, gangster movies, even science fiction - and his films are among the all-time very best IN EVERY GENRE. Amazing. There has never been a director who could do so many genres, so well, for so long. If there was a Hall of Fame for movie directors, Hawks would be enshrined in every wing.

Is the best western comedy of all time, its not up for debate. But I really like Cat Ballou as well. Lee Marvin is a hillarious drunkard and Jane Fonda is fuckin hot...like Barbarella hot. "She killed a man in Wolf City, Wyoming" We all in agreement here?

This is completely off topic, but I was just browsing my digital cable and this got me extremely psyched... HDNet is playing Neil Marshall's "Centurion" on Wednesday night at 9 PM eastern. The movie doesn't come out in theaters until the 27th, and costs $10.99 to view on demand... so getting to catch a Roman war epic directed by Marshall and starring Michael Fassbender for FREE had me doing a definitive fist pump. Film fans rejoice.

Right on Bright_Boy! "The Long Riders" is too cool! All the gang's brothers - James, Younger, Miller, played by actual brothers - Caradine, Keach, Quaid? AND "period accurate" music by Ry Cooder? Fuggedaboutit! <p> The points about "Unforgiven" and "Open Range" influence vs the POS that is "Young Guns", are well made, but Yer Mama is just trolling anyway. <p> "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" anyone? I know, mama and the other cretins: zzzzzzzz...

No disrespect to Shanghai Noon, a fine comedy that ambitiously mixed three genres. And the villain was great - I think about that oyster shell in the throat every time I have shellfish.<p>
But Blazing Saddles broke every rule in the book, and still managed to be hilarious.

He is the undisputed king of the western. Well, maybe aside from Ford but Major Dundee, Pat Garret and the motherfucking Wild Bunch. How this film hasn't gotten a mention in this conversation is sad. It is the single greatest film of the genre hands down. The searchers is the only one that comes close. Pay attention to the opening scene and see where Tarantino raped that badass freeze frame of amanda plummer in Pulp Fiction. "If anybody moves, Kill'em".....And the ending may be the most hardcore shit ever put to film. No joke.

quite a bit, but I have friends and family who cant stand it. You know what else kicks ass that I havent seen mentioned yet? TOMBSTONE. Not quite there among the classics, but it is entertaining as fuck. Kurt Russel and especially Val Kilmer are some of the coolest gunslingers ever. Very quotable too. "Maybe poker isnt your game...perhaps we should have a spelling contest"

I haven't thrown together a list on this talkback, but I did mention peck in comparison to walter hill's magnum opus. You're absolutely right though, sam's shit is unreal. The searchers too. Liberty vallance needs to come up in a conversation about ford too.

You mention the fart scene, and yet believe blazing saddles is coveted by those who try to act smart? Seriously? You're drawing parallels between mel brooks and tolstoy? Wow. And, yeah, city slickers was funny.

Mine would include The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and 3 others. There are too many great westerns to do a top 5. I do know that Young Guns would not be in it. It's okay, but it is not near the greatness of the two aforementioned or Stagecoach, Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, My Darling Clementine. Dodge City, Jesse James, The Ox Bow Incident, The Gunfighter, Winchester '73, Shane, High Noon, Hondo, Rio GRande, Fort Apache, The Tall T, Seven Men from Now, Rio Bravo, The Magnificent Seven, The Sons of Katie Elder, El Dorado, True Grit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Unforgiven, Tombstone or 3:10 to Yuma. I know I missed some key movies. See what I mean? It's too hard to make a list of only 5. And Angie Dickinson was smoking hot then and for many years after.

I saw that three times on DVD already. And I NEVER rewatch westerns on DVD. That is one seriously great movie. Duvall and Costner, and Annette Benning were at the top of their game. Even Tori Spelling's husband was excellent as the Doc.

Yeah, it originally aired on TV as a "miniseries", but now that it's had a longer life as a DVD it deserves a spot as one the absolute great Western movies. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry and starring the legndary Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones. This is an epic Western in every sense of the word. Beautifully filmed and acted.

He just needs the right roles. Open Range was tailor made for him. Unfortunately he has a knack of picking bad scripts. I don't know. Recently saw him in The New Daughter and his acting was really good and made most of the movie somewhat compelling. The ending was just horrible though, not his fault.

The late great Sydney Pollack directed this western starring Robert Redford as a man who heads deep into the Rocky Mountains to eke out a living as a trapper. Great scenes with a veteran trapper played by Will Geer, hostile encounters with Indians and jaw-dropping mountain scenery all combine to make this one of my favorites. Not your usual shoot 'em up but excellent nonetheless.

Blasphemy to some, but El Indio was quite the sinister villain and had the psychological mess in his mind to fuel his high jinks.
Add in a solid dual lead performance where EASTWOOD and VAN CLEEF build off each other, you have quite the legendary western film.

For a Few Dollars More IS probably my favorite of the Leone westerns. I can understand that the later ones are more epic, but the banter and one upmanship between Eastwood and Van Cleef makes For a Few Dollars More one of the great Buddy Movies of all time.

Oh..there are a few real women still...Hayek, Bellucci, maybe Johansson, etc.</p><p> But Compare what many consider the paragon of Female beauty today as pushed by the Media...broads like Jolie, or Fox...to the all natural female goddesses of our recent past. The chicks from the 50-70's make most of today's "Hot" actresses look like the medically butchered, injected, photoshopped, scrawny, casting couch cock whores they are.

While I know this is blasphemy, my top favorite Westerns go: 1) OUTLAW JOSIE WALES (my favorite movie of all time, period), 2) TRUE GRIT, 3) HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER 4) THE WILD BUNCH 5) RIO BRAVO 6) SHANE 7) UNFORGIVEN 8) TOMBSTONE 9) UNFORGIVEN (even though Clint Eastwood is basically apologizing for his "pro-gun mentality" movies through the whole thing) and 10) THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE. While there's a soft spot in my heart for Sergio Leone's Westerns, it's just really tough for me to associate them with American-made Westerns, except for ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. And while BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID is a great watch, it comes off less like a Western and much more like "movie made in the Sixties". It would be like labelling "Alias Smith & Jones" as a "Western TV series" instead of "shit TV made in the Seventies".

You love Unforgiven so much you listed it twice. I also prefer American westerns to Leone. It's not that I don't like them. They're fine. I just prefer American westerns, and preferably ones made prior to the 70's, but I do love Clint.

Does anyone know if there are good DVDs of either these movies out there anywhere? Ones that have some decent special features? I've been waiting for yeras to get them on DVD because the only ones I have found are bare bones. Also, Shane is in dire need of a great DVD. I've waited for that too.

Favourite westerns have got to be Good, Bad and Ugly, OUTIW, Proposition, Assasination of Jesse James (fuckin loved that movie and the best looking movie i've ever seen bar maybe touch of evil and the conformist), and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. It modernises it but it still belongs as a Western.I haven't seen a whole bunch of the 50s and 60s westerns though, like Shane, Winchester, etc.

are "Hombre" (starring Paul Newman and Richard Boone), "Valdez Is Coming", "The Unforgiven" (both starring Burt Lancaster. In the latter, he plays big brother to Audrey Hepburn's character who was born an indian, but secretly adopted by by whites) and "The Last Wagon" starring Richard Widmark. He plays a man raised by the Comanche (appropriately named Comanche Todd) that becomes wanted by the law for murder. He's captured and becomes a prisoner in an ill-fated wagon train.
Btw, Elmore Leonard wrote the novels that "Hombre" and "Valdez Is Coming" are based on.

The Western is one of the most important film genres, period. Musicals as well. The talent on display in most studio musicals was better than any current TV talent show crap-fest could hope for in 25 years.
Three more very good Westerns, all starring Jimmy Stewart -- Winchester '73, The Naked Spur and Broken Arrow. And, I'll offer support to The Shootist as a fine film.
Oh, photos of Angie Dickinson and Ann-Margret, back-to-back... and I'm imagining them in many other positions as well!

Dances with wolves is an excellent movie, even the flawed Wyatt Earp is good, rewatched it recently and it gets a bad rap but I don't know why, maybe bcos it's long, Kev plays wyatt as cold, brutal and tough, and he nailed it, and Open Range is very good too, yes the title sounds like an animated adventure about chickens but who cares about the title, its slow paced but all the better for it, great acting, loved the scene where costner and duvall reckon they might die so indulghe in some chocolate and cigars and it all ends with one of the best shootouts in a western ever.

have been mentioned in this tb. RIO BRAVO certainly belongs in this list. The exact order is immaterial; each individual will have his very favorites based on his personal preferences. RIO BRAVO has always been high on my own list since first seeing it at the drive-in over 50 years ago. The elcectic cast made RB a standout to me, mixing old favorites with rising stars, and the story is classic. There will likely be more remakes and reimaginings of this basic plot to come, and that's probably a good thing. I'd hate to think of a world without Carpenter's original ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13.

And top ten Westerns. A great, great movie. Stumpy showing up with the dynamite brings a cheer from me every time. Been watching this flick since I was born and it never, ever gets old. I got mad love for everybody in this - John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Claude Akins - all of 'em fucking awesome!

I can sing harmony with Dean and Ricky. And this one always appealed to me for another reason - I got a grandfather on one side that's John Wayne-esque and one on the other side that's very Dean Martin-esque. This movie always made me think of two "hero" grandfathers teaming up in the Old West to fight the bad guys. Hells, yeah!

I would call Dances With Wolves one of my favorite westerns...so I'm not totally against Costner. And according to one of the whores who slept with Tiger Woods, Costner has an enormous cock...so there's that.

3:10 was great. Haven't watched it in awhile, but we're getting yard sale stuff together and 3:10 was definitely saved.
And by the way, just did a little internet digging on Angie Dickinson... never saw Big Bad Mama, but damn. She was hot, naked, and ready. Or at least a damn good actress. Too bad she had to be with the Shat. At least I think it was him.

...Costner, whom she also fucked, is packing meat. Madonna probably shouldn't have kicked him out of her show during Truth or Dare, because that filth-ridden cockhound could have taken a ride on Costner's baloney pony.

Just so many good things but I guess to me, it was just the bonding of the Duke, Dino, Rick and ol Stumpy. Especially the scene where after Stumpy goes on a rant about no one appreciating him and Duke says "Awww, Stumpy I appreciate you" and quick gives him a peck on the forehead.

Yes, The Cowboys is pretty damn good. And Bruce Dern will burn in cinematic hell for what he did in that movie.
I finally saw Will Penny today. What a great understated performance by Chuck Heston. For those who think that Heston was an overacting ham, check out the nuanced performance he gives in Will Penny.
*footnote* The kid in Will Penny was played by the film's writer/director's son, Jon Gries, who would later go on to get kicked in the nards and would surf the web for a time machine so he could go back to 1982.

and other westerns - the only reason people argue that it's a classic is because Hawks has a sloppy almost non-present style- framing shots lazily in --oh wait.. I was thinking about Kevin Smith. He really fucking sucks.